Author: Museum Studies Program

Friday (Oct 21) Brown Bag presentation at noon

“Supporting Youth through Environmental Education: Teaching, Learning, and Design at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens” Looking beyond traditional science curricula in schools, this presentation will explore opportunities for science learning through actual experiences via out-of-school settings such as UM’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens.  The presentation will...

2 new working papers just added!

Two Working Papers have just been added… take a look! Caroline Braden (MSP13) Welcoming All Visitors: Museums, Accessibility, and Visitors with Disabilities James Nadel (museum studies minor) Rediscovering Sephardic Catalonia: Heritage and the Museum of Jewish History in Girona

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Monica Patterson (MSP07) continues to work as Assistant Professor in the Institution of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University. She recently opened the exhibition titled “Children’s Rights in Africa,” curated in collaboration with students from her Fall 2015 Advanced Topics seminar in Child Studies, “The History of ‘the African Child.”...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to…  Anna Wieck (MSP09) has been appointed Curatorial Research Associate in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She was recently invited by the Meadows Museum (SMU, Dallas) to deliver a public lecture that will complement the exhibition “Modern...

Alumni kudos!

Kudos to… Caroline Braden (MSP13) who was selected as a recipient for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Award for Emerging Leaders for her work at The Henry Ford. This award was created in...